Student Sues University Because He Didn’t Get First-Class Degree

As students, there are often times where we’ll find our classes or tuitions boring. But what’s the most extreme action that we have taken to counter the boredom? Some of us would snack or doodle while some who are more badass would skip class entirely. If we ended up failing the class, we would sigh and try again or even push the blame onto our lecturers for not doing a good job in educating us.

However, a university graduate decided the usual way to counter the failure in achieving the best scores wasn’t enough. Mr Faiz Siddiqui said that his “boring tuition” which cost him to graduate without his first-class honours should be held responsible legally. And by legally, we meant he decided to sue his university. 

Graduated from the university 16 years ago, Mr Siddiqui is claiming that he was not able to have a successful career as an international commercial lawyer. After graduation, he has been training as a solicitor.

During his school days, he had studied modern history at the university’s Brasenose College and claimed that he had underachieved due to “negligent teaching” in his Indian imperial history class, resulting in an achievement of second upper-class honours when he graduated.

Suing for a total amount of S$1.8 million, he is going up against the university’s chancellor, masters and scholars for a claim in purported loss of earnings from what he could have earned if he had gotten a first-class degree.

 However, Oxford argued back saying that Mr Siddiqui’s argument is baseless due to the number of years that has passed since his graduation in 2000. 

Mr Roger Mallelieu, Mr Siddiqui’s lawyer attributed his client’s insomnia and depression from his failure in attaining a first-class degree. Though, Oxford did admit that they had been having difficulties running the module in 2000 as half the staff teaching Asian history was away on sabbatical.

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